Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is – not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
Afflictions are but the shadows of God’s wings.
Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.
No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea.
We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
Fear is faithlessness.
They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, ‘I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.’
I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.